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I just encountered a problem with expanding „dotted“ strokes as I wanted to convert a diagram I created to a „fills only“ version not having any elements which feature just strokes.

It turns out that with dotted strokes which have dots at their ends these „end dots“ are not expanded correctly but end up as semi circles or even more or less weird shapes (see attached screenshot).

Obviously these dotted strokes are made using settings like those seen on the screenshot (especially featuring round caps and zero length for the „on“ phase).

You can actually experiment with the length of that „on“ phase (e.g. setting it to 0,05 or 0,02 – being very careful to not visibly distort the roundness of the dots too much; a value of 0,05 already produces slightly oval dots), but then either the number of dots on the stroke changes affecting the original design (while actually being expanded correctly but of course reflecting that visual change) or (with very small non-zero values) expanding still creates that mutilated dots an the ends of the stroke...

Any ideas what can be done? (except actually replacing weird dots manually with circles, that is)

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What happens if you change the phase to 2, before expanding the stroke?

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It’s one of the current unfixed bugs. 
workaround:

  1. set stroke type to line
  2. add a node in the pressure profile
  3. set stroke to dashed

now the stroked gets half-way correct. Never the less, the nodes in the circle are often quite off, including sharp nodes. Zoom in to stop the issues.

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8 minutes ago, carl123 said:

What happens if you change the phase to 2, before expanding the stroke?

You got to tweak the lenght of the stroke (especially the end node) and you have deactivate the „Balanced Dash Pattern“ checkbox aside from setting the phase to 2 (see screenshot).

But it’s almost easier to replace the mutilated circles by hand than to fiddle with the values until it sort of fits…

Nevertheless, your idea is appreciated!

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10 minutes ago, NotMyFault said:

workaround:

Or turn Balanced off and set phase to 2

I was too slow :(

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